Tom,
Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 5:01:08 PM, you wrote:
TP> Is there a simple way in MySQL to only select the first x rows that meet
TP> a specified criteria.
TP> For example in Oracle the following would work:
TP> Select * from Blah where stuff="true" and rownum <= 10
TP> (where rownum is not a specific column, just a count of how many rows
TP> have been returned)
TP> But MySQL doesn't like this.
TP> Anyone know the correct way to approach this??
Use LIMIT clause:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SELECT.html
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